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    Frank Schwab is a writer at Dr. Saturday, and occasionally Shutdown Corner. He covered a Heisman Trophy winner (Ron Dayne), before covering the NFL for 10 years. He has been fortunate enough to be a voter for the NFL MVP and Heisman Trophy, very fortunate to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, and currently lives outside of Denver with his wife and daughter.

    • Johnny Manziel tweets he ‘can’t wait to leave College Station’

      (USA Today Sports Images)Here we thought Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel was too busy attending the NBA Finals to be harassed in College Station.

      Apparently something happened in the early morning hours on Sunday to tweet – with an expletive – that he was very ready to be done with his college experience at Texas A&M. He has since deleted the tweet but it was grabbed by a few of his 360,000 followers, including @tverdeur04 (link has uncensored tweet), which we saw via the Houston Chronicle:

      (@tverdeur04)

      He had a seemingly related tweet that he did not delete:

      We don't know what set off the angry tweets, and we won't take an early-morning message to mean anything more than temporary frustration. It's not exactly a formal declaration that he's leaving for the NFL draft early or anything. But Manziel's life at Texas A&M has to be pretty unusual.

      We've written about how he didn't feel he could take classes on campus in the

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    • (USA Today Sports Images)This offseason we will count down various topics from Monday through Friday, bringing you the top five of the important and definitely some not so important issues in college football. It's the Doc Five, every week until we will thankfully have actual games to discuss.

      GREATEST COLLEGE PLAYERS WITH QUIETEST NFL CAREERS

      NO. 1, TIM TEBOW

      Let's assume Tim Tebow's NFL career is over, as some around him apparently believe, or that he won't become a NFL star. Maybe he has a Doug Williams or Doug Flutie type revival in him, but that would be an upset at this point.

      If that's the case, how should we remember Tebow, next year or 30-40 years from now?

      Here's how I think he'll be remembered, at least to most people: As a punchline. As a NFL bust. Michael Silver, in the first sentence of a story about Peyton Manning this week, said Manning's journey "was as choppy as a Tim Tebow pass through a stiff Mile High breeze." That's what he is, a synonym for bad quarterback play. The attention to Tebow has been so intense, he has been so polarizing as a player and his critics have dug in so hard that his NFL reputation will be hard to shake.

      Here's how I think Tebow should be remembered: As the greatest college quarterback of all time.

      Read More »from Doc Five: Greatest college players with quietest NFL careers – No. 1, Tim Tebow
    • (Rivals.com)This next story kind of puts into perspective the relatively innocuous joke of "Roll Toilet" from a recruit earlier this week.

      Kc McDermott is a five-star recruit on the offensive line who has committed to the University of Miami. And congratulations to him for that. That's a pretty big moment.

      What is harder to understand is why he felt a need to make fun of Ohio State coach Urban Meyer in an interview with Bleacher Report as he recalls how he turned Meyer down.

      Remember as you read these two answers from the story that the biggest crime Meyer committed against McDermott was offering the young man a scholarship to come play for and get an education at one of the best universities in the United States:

      BR: What's the Urban Meyer story?

      KM: The Urban Meyer thing was just funny to me. He came to my school a week after I told his assistant that I wasn't even interested in them. I told him no to his face, and it's got to be one of the top five reactions of someone ever. His facial expression was just so funny. My coach was tearing up and had to go in his office to laugh.

      BR: Talk more about coach Meyer's face when you told him no. Was he mad, upset?

      KM: More like the state of shock where the guy has literally never been told no in his life. It literally looked like a kid the first time you

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      Other than Tuscaloosa, the city in which Alabama football receives the most respect might be Las Vegas.

      The folks who set the betting lines hold the Crimson Tide and coach Nick Saban in the highest esteem, and the power ranking they're giving Alabama this season might be unprecedented.

      According to R.J. Bell of the gambling site Pregame.com, Alabama is favored by at least 17 points in all but two games, according to betting lines set by the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. The Golden Nugget released early lines on the college football games of the year, including 10 Alabama games. Even in Alabama's biggest game this season at probable top five team Texas A&M, Alabama is favored by six points. The Crimson Tide are favored by 11.5 points against LSU in the only other Alabama spread that's less than 17 points.

      In other words, Las Vegas fully expects Alabama to roll to at least the SEC title game in its quest for an unprecedented third straight national championship.

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      Packers football and its history means a lot to the people of Wisconsin, maybe even a little too much. I understand that, because I'm from there.

      And it's arguable no player meant more in that state than Brett Favre.

      The last few years have been awkward. Favre going to the Vikings wasn't unforgivable to Packers fans, although it was pretty close. If you're not from the Midwest, you really can't understand how personal the Bears-Packers-Vikings rivalry is.

      But he was still Brett Favre, the player who saved the franchise from decades of losing and embarrassment to finally bring a Super Bowl back to Green Bay. Everyone knew at some point the ice would thaw and he'd come back to be honored, but the big step was Favre expressing that he wanted that. And Packers fans probably wanted some sign that Favre wanted to return and be cheered as much as they wanted him back.

      Well, finally Favre is starting to show that it would mean plenty for him to come back to Lambeau Field, as the good guy this time.

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    • Katherine Webb reappears, this time at a golf tournament

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      Why hello, Katherine. It has been a while.

      Katherine Webb, Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron's girlfriend who has been a fixture on television, magazines and Twitter since Brent Musburger gushed about her during the BCS Championship Game, hasn't been around much lately. Since she had to quit on "Splash," the reality diving show, we haven't seen much from her.

      No reason to be too sad, because she's back. AL.com reports she'll be at Shoal Creek for the Regions Tradition golf tournament, doing all kinds of promotions.

      Just when you thought she was out, she pulls you back in.

      Webb, who is also Miss Alabama, will be interviewing a player in the media center, participating in a putting contest and interacting with fans, according to AL.com. Here's the good part: Webb will pose for pictures with fans (and she has taken a ton of those this year) and hopes those fans make a make a donation to Children's Hospital of Alabama.

      Whatever the reason Webb has come back into the spotlight, we're glad

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    • For most college football players, their first time on campus is their first time in the spotlight.

      For C.J. Sanders, playing receiver for Stanford or Tennessee or any other major football program might be a step down from what he has already experienced.

      You might not remember Sanders' name but there is a good chance you've seen him. He has nine movie or TV show acting credits to his name, according to IMDB, and had one pretty notable role as a young Ray Charles in the critically acclaimed movie "Ray." Now Sanders is a popular recruit from Brentwood (Tenn.) Academy in the class of 2015, with offers already from Mississippi State, Stanford and Tennessee, according to Rivals. He also has a pretty strong connection with Ohio State, since his father Chris Sanders was a star receiver for the Buckeyes in the 1990s and spent seven seasons with the Tennessee Titans franchise from 1995-2001.

      Lining up as a FBS player would be a big deal for anyone, but that moment probably won't be too big for Sanders.

      In an interview with BuckeyeGrove.com Sanders said he took some lessons from Jamie Foxx, who was the star of "Ray" and also played quarterback Willie Beamon in "Any Given Sunday," and transferred them to football.

      "Just being around him, he showed me how to work hard and how to be in character for a scene, but I also took that into football, how you have to prepare and how you have to focus," Sanders, who said he was 6 years old when he was in "Ray," told BuckeyeGrove.com.

      C.J. Sanders with "Ray" co-star Jamie Foxx (Getty)If his child fame and his father's football career isn't enough, Sanders' mother played basketball at Michigan

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      This offseason we will count down various topics from Monday through Friday, bringing you the top five of the important and definitely some not so important issues in college football. It's the Doc Five, every week until we will thankfully have actual games to discuss.

      GREATEST COLLEGE PLAYERS WITH QUIETEST NFL CAREERS

      NO. 2, JASON WHITE

      Oklahoma quarterback Jason White came very, very close to winning two Heisman Trophies. Just think about how we'd recall him differently if he pulled that off.

      White won a Heisman Trophy in 2003. On Nov. 23, 2004, only a few weeks before the trophy was awarded, White held the lead over USC quarterback Matt Leinart in a Scripps-Howard straw poll, as we can see via HeismanPundit.com's archives. HeismanPundit.com was convinced that if Leinart had a poor final regular-season game, the trophy was going to White. Well, Leinart threw for 400 yards and five touchdowns against Notre Dame that week, and that was that. Leinart won the Heisman, White ended up finishing third behind Leinart and teammate Adrian Peterson, though he had more first-place votes than Peterson. He also had just 90 fewer first-place votes than Leinart, despite Leinart's eruption against the Irish.

      So if the straw polls were accurate, and you assume that Leinart's late push took more votes away from White than Peterson, with one bad performance by Leinart against Notre Dame White would have joined Archie Griffin as the only two-time Heisman winners. And again, imagine how we would view White now, and decades from now.

      Instead, we've pretty much forgotten how great White's career was, in large part because he never had a NFL career.

      Read More »from Doc Five: Greatest college players with quietest NFL careers – No. 2, Jason White
    • (USA Today Sports Images)This shouldn't be a shock, but Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's lawsuit against the NCAA, looking to overturn penalties against Penn State on anti-trust grounds, was dismissed.

      And, as Associated Press reported, U.S. Middle District Judge Yvette Kane called it a "Hail Mary pass" that was easily dismissed.

      The anti-trust argument failed to measure up for Kane.

      "The fact that Penn State will offer fewer scholarships over a period of four years does not plausibly support its allegation that the reduction of scholarships at Penn State will result in a market-wide anticompetitive effect, such that the 'nation's top scholastic football players' would be unable to obtain a scholarship in the nationwide market for Division I football players," Kane wrote, according to AP.

      Although none of this is too surprising, there was an interesting part of Kane's decision.

      Kane did acknowledge that an argument against the NCAA and its penalties could have some merit.

      "In another forum the complaint's appeal to equity and common sense may win the day, but in the antitrust world these arguments fail to advance the ball," Kane said.

      It's hard to say Penn State shouldn't have accepted the NCAA's harsh penalties, which seemed to overstep its bounds and were unprecedented in not giving Penn State the same due process other schools get. It was an obvious public

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    • (Getty)This offseason we will count down various topics from Monday through Friday, bringing you the top five of the important and definitely some not so important issues in college football. It's the Doc Five, every week until we will thankfully have actual games to discuss.

      GREATEST COLLEGE PLAYERS WITH QUIETEST NFL CAREERS

      NO. 3, RASHAAN SALAAM

      Rashaan Salaam wasn't quite Barry Sanders circa 1988, but his big season was still one of the best in college football history.

      Before Salaam in 1994, only three players had rushed for 2,000 yards in a season and each one – Sanders, Marcus Allen and Mike Rozier – is considered an all-time great in the sport.

      Salaam's legacy includes his tremendous Heisman Trophy season at Colorado, but it also includes his disappointing and strange NFL career.

      Read More »from Doc Five: Greatest college players with quietest NFL careers – No. 3, Rashaan Salaam

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